[K12OSN] FC 5 and LTSP
Jarod Watkins
jarod at jxxtech.net
Fri Mar 24 18:00:00 UTC 2006
On Mar 23, at 11:59 PM[Mar 23] , Eric Harrison wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Jarod Watkins wrote:
>
>> Eric Harrison wrote:
>>> It only took me a few minutes to get the LTSP packages from FC4
>>> to work on FC5, but it did require some minor tweaking. FC5 has
>>> the shiny new modular X setup that has all of the bits located in
>>> different places than they were in the past + it has a shiny new
>>> version of GNOME which has a different configuration setup for GDM.
>>> For the FC5-based version of K12LTSP, I'm going to use the soon-
>>> to-be-released LTSP version 4.2. I hope to have a beta ready this
>>> weekend, I only have a small handful of show-stoppers I need to
>>> resolve...
>>> -Eric
>> If you don't mind, would you tell me what you did? i really would
>> like to get FC5 setup if i could! Thanks!
>
> I give it a good solid 80% chance that I'll have usable (but still
> very beta)
> ISO images uploaded in the next 12 hours. I just worked through one
> of the
> show-stoppers[1] and am banging on another right now.
>
> To give instructions on the hacks I did earlier, I'd have to do a
> fresh
> install and try to repeat the processes - which would take me an
> hour or
> two. I think it is a better use of my time getting out a decent set of
> install disks ;-)
>
> -Eric
>
> [1] Thanks Shahms, your guess was right. The package-order
> generation utility
> does appear to treat packages with "kernel" in their name
> differently.
> Renaming ltsp_i386-kernel to ltsp_i386-boot made the weirdness
> go away.
Hey no problem, i can always take a peek at what you edited and learn
for myself! Thanks for all your hard work and I look forward to
seeing those disks!
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